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Two weeks of polishing the NFL legends of Eli Manning and Tom Brady into modern gunslinger monuments might have seemed prudent for an unprecedented collision of Super Bowl MVPs, but the result wasn't terribly artistic until both quarterbacks finally drew their weapons late in a breathtaking Super Bowl.
The final shot, a Patriot missile fired by Brady 51 yards from the New York end zone as the game clock expired, was contested by four leaping players in front of the goal post -- three Giants and tight end Aaron Hernandez.
The ball came out of that desperate mid-air tangle and popped forward for a final indecisive fraction of a second, then fell into history just beyond the reach of New England's other brilliant tight end, Rob Gronkowski.